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S1-HEAT RADIATION -PART ONE

By PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU (Vrs.Somanchi)

 

A LITTLE OF SCIENCE. IT IS SO INTERESTING!

Old findings and old discoveries inspired  greater and more thorough investigation and modern science was born.We  examine here the subject of heat energy from various angles. In carrying out experiments , most accurate measuring devices and apparatus were used . Most  accurate metric units were defined and were followed by scientists of all countries .This created uniformity in research procedures. Experimental results could be verified in any laboratoty in any university in any country.

Nice chemical laboratories were established in every college with a collection of standard analytical agents like salts and crystals, acids and hydroxides , a very clean glass apparatus and highly pure “distilled water” the main reagent in a chemical laboratory . An accurate laboratory balance for weighing, a reliable thermometer, standard units for length and weight(mass) made in platinum –iridium and enclosed in glass cases in central laboratories, defining small time unit and devising accurate pendulum clock, an accurate pressure gauge,  the microscope, small laboratory heating burners etc  –all such  helped  in  understanding unknown phenomena and unknown properties of substances and discovering new laws of nature.

Special unbreakable glass apparatus(ex:the famed Jena glass) like test tubes and beakers,long neck beahers , gas collecting jars , big “bell jars”,bee-hive shelfs , porcelain crucibles , fractionating columns etc were all devised.  Procedures and apparatus for  measuring length ,time, weight etc even up to a fraction of thousandth or even hundred thousandth part  were invented. A strict procedure for noting observations in a standardized form and approved by the supervising professor with date and time of experiments , hourly changes etc was introduced.

In modern times measurement even up to giga level (billion times) and nano fractional level( one billionth fraction) is being done in physics and chemistry laboratories. Research was greatly aided by advanced mathematical theories. As example we may note that Sir Issac Newton developed a mathematical discipline called calculus and used it in deriving his laws of motion.  Experiments were performed with great perfection. Same experiment performed at different  laboratories ,at different  universities by  different experimenters gave the same result . Standardized experimental procedures, standardization of apparatus and ultra-purity of substances were insisted upon at all laboratories of the world. It was the correct environment for all research.

The subject of  “Heat scienc” was one of the  important areas of study   during last 200-300 years. The biggest scientists were involved. These early studies led to all the modern discoveries and inventions. Theories — like Dr Maxwell’s theory of Electro- magnetic Radiations, Dr Max Plank’s Quatum theory about emission of quanta  of energy , Dr Niels Bohr’s  theory explaining how  emission or absorption of all energy takes place in the electron orbits  inside  every atom,  the great theory of  Dr Albert Einstein about photons as units for all energy emission etc.  These theories changed the entire course of physics and views about matter and energy in the universe. We now know that heat and light,   familiar  to us  every moment   are  parts of the  electro-magnetic spectrum and that heat and light photons are emitted from electron orbits .

After the availability of high voltage electrical energy great inventions and discoveries took place in physics. They are–   discovery of Electron , discovery of X-rays, detailed study of Radioactive substances and discovery of the law E=mc2  telling about  colossal energy locked inside atom.

 

 

 

  

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